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The EAF-Nansen Programme's partners and key stakeholders convened last month for a series of meetings organised in Cotonou, Benin, from 4-7 November. The first day was devoted to the Programme's Steering Committee on Global Issues and Other Areas; the next two days were dedicated to the Annual Forum, with...

Artisanal fishers from a fishing community in Avlékéte in Benin wake up every day at dawn to cast the nets in the sea for the next several hours. The nets are often set from shore to encircle a school of fish, but they can also be set at some distance...

The development of a new international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) continued with the third session of an Intergovernmental Conference – referred...

*This news item is also available in French The capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott, hosted the sixth session of the Fishery Committee of the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources – Sub-group North- held from the 2nd to 10th December 2019. In total, 18...

High-level representatives from Norway and Myanmar, together with the FAO Representation, gathered yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, for an official presentation of the results of the marine ecosystem survey conducted in the country's waters in 2018. This survey formed part of a regional coverage of the Bay of Bengal...

For the first time, a regional training course on basic taxonomy and identification of marine species and macroinvertebrates was organized by the EAF-Nansen Programme from 15 to 26 July 2019 at the Directorate of Fisheries in Yangon, Myanmar. Twenty-three participants from Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka attended the workshop ran by...